Swaddling Clothes By Yukio Mishima Analysis

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“Swaddling Clothes” is a story about a Japanese woman who experienced some tough time about the newborn baby who was delivered in Toshiko’s house because of his poverty. This is showing how class structure has a big influence in Japanese culture. An analysis of “Swaddling Clothes” by Yukio Mishima through the Marxist and historical lenses suggests that the story is really about how the Japanese people were greatly influenced by the western people during the 1950s, which led the Japanese people to lose their identities.
Western people influenced Japanese people to follow the American culture. The western culture had a huge impact in the Japanese people because American’s were in Japan’s territory so they decided to follow the western culture. ‘’After Japan surrendered in 1945, ending World War II, Allied forces led by the United States occupied the nation, bringing drastic changes. Japan was disarmed, its empire dissolved, its form of government changed to a democracy, and its …show more content…

My thoughts about the story was right Toshiko experienced a tough situation as a wife she didn’t get the love she wanted from her husband and had a miserable life. Toshiko always questions herself whether her husband likes her or not because he doesn’t spend enough time for her to think that he loves or care about her. The time period was not that great and that why her husband didn’t make any effort to show some sympathy and help her around with the situation she was in. She was pregnant at that time and that’s why she couldn’t do whatever she wanted to do and change the situation, she was looking for someone to help her but no one helped

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